Probing black hole x-ray binaries with the Keck telescopes

Emilios T. Harlaftis; Alex V. Filippenko

doi:10.1117/12.390146

29 June 2000 Probing black hole x-ray binaries with the Keck telescopes

Emilios T. Harlaftis, Alex V. Filippenko

Proceedings Volume 4005, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 8- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390146
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The advent of the large effective apertures of the Keck telescopes has resulted in the determination with unprecedented accuracy of the mass functions and mass ratios of faint x-ray transients as well as constraining the main- sequence companion star parameters and producing images of the accretion disks around the black holes.

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Emilios T. Harlaftis and Alex V. Filippenko "Probing black hole x-ray binaries with the Keck telescopes", Proc. SPIE 4005, Discoveries and Research Prospects from 8- to 10-Meter-Class Telescopes, (29 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390146

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